Bumping that new FReepathon thread!
Jim - did you vote for Romney, or did you stick true to your promise to sit this one out?
It looks like we may have lost this by lack of conservative participation. As objectionable as Romney was, I don’t think giving Obama another four years was the right answer...
Inquiring minds want to know.
Kudos on having the site up and running just fine. I think a lot of us were doubting we’d have FR when we needed it the most.
Just sent in $20 by Paypal to continue the resistance. Go Sarah.
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth.
But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!"
I have a few words for Freepers who are disappointed:
“Suck it up and keep on working to return this country to its former greatness.”
And you may quote me.
I am firmly convinced this is God's judgement on a country that has turned it's back on Him. I also know that God knows and will take care of His own come what may. God's ways are not our ways. May God hold each and every one of His in the palm of His hand. May we lean on our Faith in Him.
I propose we take one or two days to p!ss and moan, then get back to work. Get conservatives to run for the Senate and the House, then support them against the GOP-e. If we can do a repeat of 2010, we will be in pretty good shape (if we make it that far).
We have to fight the Marxist in the WH and the Dems in the Senate relentlessly, we can't give him or them a free ride.
Our country needs our help NOW!
New FReepathon thread BUMP for more Monthly Donors!
JIMROB SAID:
“I was asked what will we do now. Well, we keep on trucking.
We continue building pro-America, conservative grassroots tea party enthusiasm and we retake our government at the state and local levels. Use the tenth amendment to block the feds. Lean on our Republican majority in the congress to not authorize excessive spending or new taxes or new debt.
Build on our majority in 2014!! Retake the senate!! Be better prepared in 2016!!
Roll on tea party, roll on!!
And please keep those donations coming in. We’re going to need FR, now more than ever!!
Thank you all very much!
God bless!!
Prayers up for our free country.”
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Thanks for all you do JimRob, and for the words of encouragement. I am sure I speak for many who are grateful for the new equipment!
On another thread, I found these words to be very inspiring and helpful:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2956177/posts
A thought for tonight
self | 11-7-2012 | Notary Sojac
Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:28:25 PM by Notary Sojac
The 19th of May, 1780, was a remarkable day. Candles were lighted in many houses; the birds were silent and disappeared, and the fowls retired to roost. The legislature of Connecticut was then in session at Hartford.
A very general opinion prevailed, that the day of judgment was at hand. The house of Representatives, being unable to transact their business, adjourned. A proposal to adjourn the Council was under consideration.
When the opinion of Colonel Davenport was asked, he answered, “I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.”
Let us all emulate the good Colonel in the days to come. I’m not lowering my flag.
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My comment (texokie):
We must not lose the vision of our founders, and especially George Washington! This may be our time of Valley Forge and have not crossed our Delaware yet.
Glad to see someone else knows it’s not over. I’m still with you, Jim, no matter what. The country isn’t finished, and the doom and gloom is getting old.
Never ever ever give up!
Remember: Reagan came AFTER Carter, LBJ and FDR. America can survive the Communist Organizer too.
Well, I was hoping for a while that Romney might make it. He did an EXCELLENT job at the Al Smith Memorial dinner in New York, maybe his best appearance ever. And he did moderately well in the first debate, although it was Obama who screwed up, not really Romney who did well.
But in the end it went as I feared. The GOPe now has about a fifty year record of putting forward lousy candidates. Ronald Reagan, the only really good President we have had in all that time, won against the strongest efforts of the GOPe to keep him sidelined. They tried their best to destroy him.
I fought against Romney for the past six years or so, ever since he ran in the 2008 primary and lost badly—which apparently qualified him to be the “my turn” guy of the Establishment after McCain failed so completely.
I have pretty much kept my mouth shut about all Mitt’s problems and failures since he was given the nomination. His record as a pro-abort, a gay marriage LEADER, a socialized medicine LEADER, a flip flopper to end all flip floppers. And, of course, a Mormon. I have nothing against Mormons as such, but when a Mormon Bishop runs for President, and clearly commands all of his Mormon followers to vote for him, which they do up to about 90%, which put him over the top in several key primary states, then it becomes an issue.
Billy Graham told the Evangelicals that Mitt was a more moral guy than Obama, and I think that’s true. But in Evangelical eyes, he hasn’t been “saved,” and he hasn’t given himself to Jesus. No way. At most, Jesus is his elder brother, and they both get planets to run.
The Evangelicals came out for Bush in 2004 in droves, but he disappointed them and they stayed home in 2006, which lost the GOP control over congress. I have no doubt that Mitt won most of the “Evangelical states,” but that’s because they are all very conservative. But with lots of Evangelicals and others predictably staying home, that gave Obama most of the swing states.
I held my nose and voted for Mitt Romney. Obama is so bad, it justifies voting for Romney even though he has a proven record of gay activism and taxpayer funded abortion, and even though he recently pledged again to support aborting babies conceived in rape or to protect the “health” of the mother, which can mean just about any child in the womb who is inconvenient. Because Obama is even worse.
Much good a vote for Romney did in Vermont, but I voted for the jerk anyway.
Romney helped the press kill off Gingrich and Santorum. He ran far more attack ads against them than against Obama. And the conservatives were divided, as usual. Santorum ran a pretty good second to Romney, even though Romney, Drudge, Coulter, and everyone else trashed Santorum. And Gingrich stayed in the race long enough to split the vote as a weak third place candidate, which ensured Romney the victory.
One can’t help suspecting that Romney “lent” McCain several of his handlers deliberately in 2008 in order to put the halter on Sarah Palin, undermine her at every turn, and destroy McCain’s campaign—so Romney could run next time around, which would be “his turn.” Anyone who has read Sarah’s book on the campaign will recognize who those guys were. And they continued to trash her for the next four years, until she felt obliged to withdraw for the good of the party and her much abused family.
And this was the guy I had to vote for as the only choice against Obama! The guy who expertly trashed his fellow Republicans at every turn but then refused to respond more than mildly to Obama’s lies and deceits.
It’s easy enough to blame Evangelicals and others for staying home, which the numbers now confirm was the case. But as with McCain—and Dole, and you name it—the real problem was that they forced Romney on Conservative voters in the first place, and once again they manipulated the usual split between values conservatives and libertarian conservatives and fiscal conservatives which ensured that Romney would be the last man standing—although he was the next to worst of all the GOP candidates.
Whose fault? Those who stayed home, or those who forced a lousy choice on the base whom many of them simply couldn’t stomach—and with good reason?
I haven’t said anything like this for the past several months, and I voted for the loser. But the dreadful outcome was completely due to Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, and the rest of the idiots who have given us candidates like Arnie Schwarzenneger, Lincoln Chaffee, Bob Dole, and Mitt Romney as our only choices to vote for.
Why not make the objective to see to it that he and his administration do not complete a 2nd term due to impeachment, forced or voluntary resignation or other non-violent means of removing him from office? Can the Tea Party handle that bold a proposition? If not, maybe we need to see the Tea Party expand it’s capabilities.
sorry I didnt ante up this round but I am laid off from my local12 union public works construction job( along with 10,000 others in the local) since the "shovel ready jobs werent so shovel ready"
so while collecting unemployment and calling in every day to see if any "shoveling" is needed I started to manufacture parts in the shed, I made $1200 so far over the past two months but a lot of that went to reinvest in materials and mortgage, I will kick in when I start to profit.
hopefully I can get off the government tit altogether ASAP
Thanks for what you do,
Dave Miller
“Build on our majority in 2014!! Retake the senate!! Be better prepared in 2016!!”
I don’t see it happening. Sure, give it a try. But I think we have to recognize that we as conservatives are up against a sea change in the culture let alone the politics.
The American electorate had a clear choice between a radical socialist and a moderate. The moderate, to his credit, ran a competent campaign. Sure, he could have done some things differently. The upshot though is that he ran on a platform of jobs and the electorate preferred a welfare check. Conservatism simply doesn’t win in that sort of environment.
So now we have pop up ads?